The following Statement of Qualification summarizes EAI's extensive level of experience and capabilities.
Introduction:
Environmental Alternatives, Inc. (EAI) was founded in 1989 to provide advanced cleaning technologies to the nuclear, industrial, and aerospace industries. EAI is dedicated to bringing safe, environmentally acceptable cleaning and waste minimization services to its clients and offers them a complete line of premier technologies such C02 blast cleaning, TechXtract® Chemical Extraction and Decontamination Technology, Rad-Release Chemical Extraction, Concrete Shaving and AIM (absorbent impregnated media). EAI also offers most forms of conventional processes to include multi-media dry abrasives, liquid abrasives, high pressure water blasting, scabbling, and scarification for a broad range of cleaning and decontamination applications.
Headquartered in New England, EAI has provided remediation services throughout the world. The turnkey cleaning systems are mobilized to each site along with a staff of trained and qualified personnel. Multiple rigs and crews are at work throughout the United States performing a wide range of services for nuclear shutdowns, steam generator replacements, environmental cleanup actions and fossil power plant annual outages.
This Statement of Qualifications demonstrates our capabilities to provide radionuclide decontamination, environmental remediation for hazards such as PCB’s and lead, as well as, industrial cleaning projects.
EAI's vast project experience includes notables areas such as:
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PCB decontamination of facilities was previously accomplished using solvent-based cleaners to remove surface contaminants. A typical PCB-contaminated site cleanup normally requires two solvent wipe downs to free release the facility. EAI recently expanded operations to include PCB cleanup actions.
The following project summaries describe EAI's experience in this area.
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In general, industries such as manufacturing and food processing use Freon and trichloroethane as cleaning and degreasing agents in a wide variety of applications, including final cleaning of produced products and cleaning of production-line machinery. One of the technologies that EAI offers, C02 blast cleaning, can be substituted with superior results. EAI's Industrial Cleaning Team specializes in supporting shutdown and outage projects for a range of applications. Cleaning has been completed on several different types of boilers, oven (food and blast) interiors, conveyor belts, and components. In all cases, C02 blast cleaning proved to be a viable alternative to water blasting, sand blasting, PMB (bead blasting), and solvent cleanings for the removal of general surface grime, plastics, urethanes, weld splatter, flux, carbon deposits, and other materials.
The following projects serve as examples of our experience providing these services.
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Freon and trichloroethane are used widely to remove grease, oil, and other contaminants from surfaces that require absolute cleanliness (e.g., satellites and Titan IV rocket payload fairings), as well as in the manufacturing and remanufacturing processes. The sale of most chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s) has been banned for use on U.S. Air Force contracts (effective July 15, 1992). Chemical agents, acid and alkali solutions, and blasting media all leave measurable amounts of residues and have high disposal costs.
As an example of EAI's C02 blast cleaning capabilities, at Martin Marietta, Titan IV rocket payload fairings were formerly cleaned by technicians using cotton swabs and Freon - the total task requiring 18,000 to 24,000 labor hours. EAI accomplished the same task using a robotic C02 blast cleaning system in only 46 labor hours, a time reduction of 99.74 percent. The acceptable surface contaminant level was 1.0 mg/ft2 for non-volatile residue (NVR). The previous method, Freon cleaning, achieved results at and slightly below this level. After C02 blast cleaning was demonstrated, the results were consistently 0.2 to 0.3 mg/ft2 NVR, a three to four-time reduction in levels.
Past EAI projects in the aerospace field include the following (selected samples):
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